The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) was designed to capture images of some of the most gargantuan structures in the universe — and a new observation just pushed it to its limits. In a study published in ...

Vaonis has added a new Mark II version of its Vespera smart telescope. The Vespera II offers higher resolution over the original Vespera, and other enhancments, in the same space-aged design as before ...

The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) has shared its highest-resolution image ever, featuring a star in the final stages of its evolution. ALMA is a ground-based telescope array ...

Imaging technology has transformed how we observe the universe—from mapping distant galaxies with radio telescope arrays to ...

Unistellar's Equinox 2, debuting at CES, is smart enough to point itself at the stars, nebulas and galaxies you pick with your smartphone. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote ...

A ground-based telescope in Chile has shared its highest-resolution image ever, showcasing the final stages of star evolution within our galaxy 1,350 light-years from Earth. The telescope is ...

The Webb Space Telescope has been dutifully beaming back incredible imagesof the cosmos since its “perfect” alignment earlier this year—but nothing is entirely perfect, even a $10 billion telescope.

It will cost over $1bn, but the Giant Magellan Telescope promises high-resolution imagery of the universe as never seen before. Unlike the James Webb Telescope, the Giant Magellan Telescope is a ...

The largest solar telescope in Europe has released unprecedented close-up images of the sun — and they are a little bit terrifying. GREGOR, a telescope operated by a team of German scientists at the ...

According to the widely accepted Rayleigh criterion, in order to resolve two distant point sources, their angular separation must be larger than 1.22 (the wavelength of light divided by the ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured images of three nearby galaxies with unprecedented resolution at infrared wavelengths, giving them a first look at star formation, gas and dust. Data has ...

NASA’s decision to shut down a $1 billion infrared space telescope, even as it continued to send back spectacular images, was ...